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ing- w gpeneer Moose, Associated pr“; Staff W GKING, china, April 29 Pym outskirts of Lashlo. Y , terminus of the Manda- ‘ o railway and teemlns or Chinese truck drivers to; three years have kept? ,., moving over the Burma .. have been reached by a Jap- ' spearhead which thrilst ‘.1 , lrghtlllllg stroke throuilh , mountainous Shun States, thE ,,,.. announced tonight- mhpanese liad burst through mmntallis with considerable , {or only thLs morning re- u Cliungking had placed uylansarn, 50 miles due

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‘(gusty they liad pushed for- flrur tanks and troops with we! abandon in a supreme to beat. the monsoon. the ' yrains which already are ,.. and which in two weeks , tri Burma's lowlands into . res. alaierday the column. stem- floiit from an expenditionary fluid to number 100.000 men.

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Tlernal trade

lume up wAWA. Anvil 20 — fCP)—- oi C i.ida‘s external trade Id sharpx up in March. the {rate e. "e of gold being $5.895 ipared vrith $287.- i~ ill the previous month and 30600 in March lust ysfll‘ i» Dominion Bureau of Statis- hinnoitnced today. ‘the total for the first quarter i no was $004,022,828. compar- g villi $583.43l.5OB in the corres- .~ period of i941. The b lCt‘ o! trade was in or to the extent of M3 al i-i March compared lltha favorable balance of $48.- i.0i|l in February and an un- ble bait-nice of 35.020835 in The amount

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ltd v-rn $37,937,502 in the same i 0ft cf 1941.

taming Events

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Italians use Battleships For convoys

CAIRO,Aprll20 —(AP)- In- formed British naval olrclel said today that Mussolini has pressed his big fast 35,000-ton battle- ships Into service to convoy troops and supplies across the Mediter- ranean to German field marshal Erwin Rommel’: African armies.

(Italy ll known to have two of those ships of the Llttorio class, and is believed to have aompm. ed two more.)

In the past. these capital ships have avoided contact with the

ritish fleet, and the foot that Mussolini ls using this most po- tent of his naval weapons was taken a! evidence of the efforts of the Axis to hulld up its str-lk- lng force in the desert rather than to strengthen naval Dppu. sltlon to the Allies.

INTERNATIONAL AT A GLANCE

BRITAIN — R. A. F. blasts Trondheim for second successive night, pours bombs on Kiel; G"- "IIIIB rfllalinte with East Ang- lian raids,

AUSTRALIA - "Strong" U. S. reinforcements arrive in Common- wealth.

attack strongly about Kursk, half-way depot be- lWfl-‘n Moscow and Sea. of Azov.

BURMA-Jana reach outskirts of grztsshlo, Chinese Burma. road do.

RUSSIA-Reds

GERMANY-Free French Neiws Agency says Nazis have launched [lease offensive.

What became 0f Pogue Carhuretter?

UITAWA, Aprll 29 —— (C P) — Mentioning the so -cul1ed “Poille carburetter" as an instance. Rev- E.G. Hansel (ND. MacLeod) said in the House of Commons tOdfl-v that there was a feeling ‘that. the inventive genius of Canada can sometimes be sabotaged by big interests."

Mr. imrisell was speaking in the debate on a resolution by Prime llflrvster Mackenzie King for the setting up of a special committee on war expenditures

He was urclm the need cf a beard to facilitate study of m- ventions that might aid the war

ffort, ‘

"For instance," he said, "a. few years ago a carburettor was SUP- pcscd to be invented that would run a car 100 mi es on a gallon 0f gasoline."

“The Pogue-oarbiltctter." iiiter- jected M.J. Coldwell. House Leader cf the C.C.F‘.

“Anywayr it ncrer crnie into ex- istence," Mr. Hansrll continued. "Perhaps the Minister rf munitions and supply tl-lcn C.D. Hnwci may tell us that it never did exLst."

H“ then drlared thrrc was a feeling that such inventions might be "sabotaged" by big interests if

they threatened private interests.

Estimate five Million surplus For C. ll. ll.

UITAWA. April-ii -fOP) - A net. cash surplus of 5.000.000 is

l. estimated for the Canadian Nat-

ional Railways in the railways 1042 budget tabled in the House of Com- mons today. mtlmated actual 104i s lus was 04,010,327.

otal railwe. o retinl revenues for 1942 lees a d at 0804000000

compared with saotaroxrra estlrrlat- 1

ed actual revenues last year. Rail- wa operating expenses are esti-

at 281,000,000 compared with $231,160.43 in 104i.

‘Iiils will leave e net revenue from railway operation of $71,000,000 which. after an allowance of I14.- 100000 for other income and profit and loss reoulrernents, makes 000,- 892.00 available for interest, com- Pifld Wit-h $54,801,318 instant.

In rest enlarges for i I ere

laced at 051. .000 compared with

344.900 in 104i. 1400K! AIIKAD FROM SI‘. PAUL'S

CAMBRIDGE, England —-t0P) - A greet deal open around St. Paul's Cathedral wt a broad av- enue leading down to the Tiunee, ‘l! Dart of a plan for the i00-yesr reconstruction plan of Iondon out- lined hi’ Prof. A. l. Richardson.

Confirmation ls lacking in Great Britain

Story ls Put Out By Free French News Agency.

LONDON, April 29 —(CP) -The A. F. I.. Free French News Agency, reported tonight that Germany Iiacl made mice peace proposals to Brit- aln within the last six weeks.

Authoritative British sources how- ever dismissed the report, and said so far as vras known no peace ov- erturcs had been made.

The agency said the proposals were similar; that the first was made through Turkey, tlie second through Switzerland and the thlrfl through Sweden.

Hitler llintlng

(Hitler in his Sunday speech made remark; inlernreted by some ob- servers here as hints at a “peace offensive" directed toward Britain, particularly when lie tried to sug- gest that the United States or Rus- sia. not. Germany, would destroy Britain.

Uriiere have been also hints. pre- sumably of Axis origin. that Italy might be willing to make a separ- ate peace.

(Archibald MacLcish. chief of tne United States office of facts and figures. last week in New York pre- dicted such a “peace offensive" from the Axis powers.)

Seek Free Hand In East

The agency said that Germany. seeking rt free hand to concentrate on the eastern front. had submitted a nine-page “Goeriiig memoran- dum" to Britain. That memorandum was said to have been the basis for all three “feelers?

Its points were reported to in- elude:-

1. Britain and the United States to recognize German control in Eiwopc. Germany being prepared to consider Anglo-Saxon suggestions for application of the “new order" on the continent.

2. Germay to annex such Russian territories as she considered neces- sary l9 her "living space "

3. Gerinanv to contra! virtually all of the French, Netherlands and Belgian colonial possessions.

German Offer

If the Allied powers accepted those fundamental conditions. Ger- many would undertake the follow- ing. according to the agency's out- line:-

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ls fatally Injured by Falling tree

Hit by a falling tree in the woods near Kensington, while helping a neighbor cut some wood. Mr. Herbert. Mlllinan. 62-year-old retired farmer, was fatally in- jured yesterday afternoon. The tree lodged against another and fell striking the man on the back of the head. He was immediately rushed to the Prince County Hos-

ltal in Sunimerside but died about ten minutes after reaching there without regaining con- sclousness.

The victim was assisting Mr. James Duriphy in the woods near the letters home when the acci- dent occurred. The unfortunate acc dent occurred about three o'clock. Mr. Dulipliy summoned old hurriedly and had the man removed to hospital. He was not badly marked b the 010W but

assed away in e hospital short- Ny after arriving there

The late Mr. Millman retired from farming at 11ml; 31W!‘ 1150i"- fivc years ago and moved to Ken- gQngtOn. He was not married.

Survivors include: owo brothers, Albert and Thoma-B. Mos River: four sisters, Mrs. William Crockett, Long River. Mrs. Harry Brander, Burlington, Mrs. A. H. Conch-ll. Burlington, and Mrs. Lawrence, UmTTie funeral will be held from tlie home of his sister, Mrs. A. H. Campbell, Burlington, Friday at .90 pm. followed by a service in at. Stephen's Church. Budw- ton, at 3 p. m.

Rumored Escaped French Officer Goes To Vichy

_- (A P) - a lpxitgfii. fawn/lathe! Petain will today he was unable to @0071?!" *1‘

lfiirts that Gen. 110m‘! HWW"

ad Como to Vichy and c l1-

ferred with Petairi after ewaplfll from the German fortress or Koen- igsteln where he was a Pflwnel‘ °'

war

The 06-year-old General was be-

eved to have made gcod an escape rom Germany and a retum through Bwltnerland to Hanco-

FWar Situation Last Night

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(By KIRKE L. SIMPSON, Associated Press War Analyst)

Further bad new: from Burma points to an early test of President Roosevclfs pledge that even Japanese closure of the Burma Road will not halt American help for Chinese armies. Since he spoke, the Chin- ese have announced that a Japanese spearhead has reached the sub- urbs of Lashlo, railhead of the Burma route.

The President made no secret of his conclusion that the chancel of stemming that surprise thrust until the monsoon ruins developed in full force were not good. The rains have started in west-central Burma however. Windborne showers, a certain prelude to tremendoim down- pours, are falling in the mountains west of the Mandalay plains. And it. ls through those mountains, the most rugged of Burma's triple north-

south ranges, that any Japanese flanking thrust from tlie west muet m C

come. a o a o o o

British planes scouting the Bay of Bengal have reported enemy shipping moving northward, presumably for landing operations on the upper Burma coast. Even the earlier rains. already raising stream levels along the western watershed, are apt to impede any such attempt.

It seems possible in view of that, that British help for the Chinese under Gen. Stilwell still struggling with the enemy near the Mandalay. Lashio railroad could be shifted from the Allied right flank to the left.

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In weighing the significance of the President's war review, how- ever. chief interest must attach to his stress on European developments. particularly in Russia. lle said that the Russians “have destroyed and are destroying more armed power of our enemies—troops, planes, tanks and guns-than all the other United Nations put together."

In the Presidenth informed opinion, Russia's “crushing counter-of- fensive" is the signal war development. It is the key to United Nation grand strategy on all fronts.

And to lighten a little the gloom unofficial word comes from Rus- sla that Red troops have advanced 45 miles through German lines somewhere on that vast front. If that is true. further delay in the al- readly; overdue Nazi offensive In the south against the Caucasus may YES“ .

Bertlhin Reports U. S. Planes Defend Malta

Germans claim arrival of Americans as explanation for deadlier defences of big Mediterranean Base-

LONDON. A rll 30 —(Thnrsdny> ¢(CP) -—- Then arrival 0f United States tfievtlcsrl pldtillcfsfiilhlhfi 13mg ish for less an o a a was t explanation given in Berlin for the ree-ent and dendllc-i- defences of that mid-Mediterranean base. mtlilorxiltig: , morn ng newspapers repor f t ‘i Stockholm today. o Berlin sources did not specify how the Americans reached Malta, Q the reports said. but they suggested that United States n-arshlps have OTTAWA, Apr“ 29__(Cp)_ entered the Mediterranean. About, 2,000 Canadians, members (President Roosevelt said in his o‘. “n, “med “ma, and civil. Tuesday nioht broadcast that Am- “m, a“, “flamed at Hang ericari warships are in combat in Kong and Kowloon and 5mm. the norm and south Atlantic. in u. 70 cwiuang apparently are the Arctic in the Mediterranean hflemed in Japan prupgr, said and in tlie north and south Pacific. a “mm, tamed h, we House He also said American planes. man- o; Cnmmons Qodgy roi- T. L. ned by Americans, are flying in act- chm-uh (Con, Toronto-Broad- ual combat over all the continents flew) Thc return said that the

and over all tlie oceans.)

Other German sources said the [our] situation at flung Kong American planes were flown direct- and Kowloon l5 uunsauspac. 1y ‘Film Norm Alrica- tory," and that medical services

The island. which has had more and hospflullzaflgn there are than 2.000 air raid alarms since It- ugnadequutp," on the basis of aly entered the war in 1940. I105 reports received by the 8W9"- been stepping up its resistance in menu the last few weeks. and only this Staple diet of the prisoners last Week-end destroy-Pd nine axis and inlcrnces at llong iron: planes and damaged 14 others. and Kowloon was said to be

At the same time. tlie l-‘t. A. F‘. "soup and rice." has stepped up its attacks on the "it ls reported that some ad- island of Sicily. the Axis lair from dltlonal food supplies can be which many of the planes fly a- uruhusnd by prhinnern and in-

Nernees but no infonnation as to the amount or kinds ls as

gainst Malta. yet available," the return said.

Information available incli- , catod that those interned in Re Meus Trousers

Japan are beinfi Cmlllilyfid 1"‘

work only in connection with maintaining camps, the return said.

The government had been In touch with the international Red Cross Committee which had instructed its delegate ll Japan to do everything poss- ible to obtain information l- bout. Canadians and assist them.

The Red Cross had trans- mitted a report on internment cunp conditions In Shanghai and had also transmitted some communications c o n c e r ni n I Canadians in Japan and Shani- hal. The Canadian Red Cross wag making arrangements to transmit necessities to Ce. - adians In llong Kong as soon lg this ls possible, but the ur- rnngemento had not been oom- ploted. )

TORONTO, April 29-(0?) _l-‘te- tailers of men's clothing are now permitted to deliver ready-to-wear stilts and odd trousers to purchas- ers without having to finish the bot-toms of the trousers, Horace R. Cohen, administrator of men's clothing, wartime prices and trade board, announced today.

‘The purdiaser may have the bot- toms finished at the required length outside the store where the punts were sold. but any alterations made on suit or trousers must be in ac- cordance with men's clothing style regulations. Mr. Cohen said.

Before this announcement, no re- tailer was permitted to allow suite or tmusera to leave in an unlin- lshed condition.

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Meanwhile grez-ttnuBritish air offensive is continued with Nazi Naval Bases special targets.

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The late Mrs. Ewan Macdonald lng out rlfipflifll raids smashed lust night and early today at an East

was lzlld to rest yesterday afternoon ‘ClldiSh Cemetery on a hill

Anglian town where tons of heavy

overlozrkitig Green Gables and the bombs showered down.

sand dunes of the shores on the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the dis-

British authorities termed the attack “a

explosives and thousands of fire

severe one," but there

lance. The belQved Island ggtlygy- was no early estimate of casualties or damage.

v55 was lionieaguiii-back to the glut-c immortalized by 1.0!’ in the

ook “Amie of Green Gables" Wm- tors for help as the Nazi airmen dove

Local fire fighting units soon h

ten tinder the name of Lucy Maude nntLah-u-u“ barrage.

Monlgomeryy

l-lunclreus‘ of friends from Caven- dish and other parts of Prince Ed- r ward. Island gathered to pay their last respects to tlie lute illrs. Mac- r

doliald. A short service was held town by planes

Other Nazi raiders were heard oaring inland.

Later reports said an intense aid ivas made on an East. Angllan cruising low. A

?§.ri'iri“l'fn§‘“?rlii'.§§‘yer§ I5‘i?..“"ii*~‘."‘.s “mm” °‘ lmsm“ “W ‘mmd H b A ‘ ‘ "‘ 1 g '-' *1 buried in the debris of their homes.

they arrived from Toronto. Rev. John Stirling, Kensington, a. friend 0f tlie deceased and :iie clergyman who performed the marriage cere- mony when she was married to Rev. Ewan Macdonald, conducted the service. The prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Frank Baird, Superin- tendent of the ‘Presbyterian Miss- ions in the Maxitimes, Chlpmari, N.

B. The funeral to Cavendish United

LONDON. April ZtL-(AIW- —Trondhcim and Kiel, im- portant bases for the menac- ing Nazi naval power. were. left blasted and burned today by heavy R, A. F. assaults as Britain relentlessly prosecuted the fiercest air offensive of the war.

Nine British bombers were lost

011111511 “'85 held M 2-39- T119 in the overnight raids, which iii-

churcli was filled to the last seat eluded with nlourners and friends. and a airdmmes and a

attacks on low-country power plant at

number stood in the aisles during Ghent,’ Belgium

the funeral service.

The R. A, R's figure raised its

Th“ “wmm; ""3"" ‘"5 “Mm April bomber losses to 131, but the

by Rev. Mr. Stirling, who was in ofiemwe some

charge of the service and delivered the eulogy. This was followed by the nyrnii. "The

herd“. A prayer was then offered 551m» which a“ bill’

included a three-

hour raid on Trondheim Montiay Lu“d's My Sh“, night, four nights of deadly as-

erased from

by Rev .1 R. Skinner, Winsloe, aria the map the 6mm“ Em“ port

this was followed by the

"The Old Ruszged Cross“, sung by incessant

a quart/cite irom the Cavendish

choir. The Scripture lesson was V3510“ wasp"

read by the Rev. G. W. Tilley, past- or of Cavendish Church.

The hymn Kindly Light" preceded the funeral oration given by Rev. lvLr. Stirling. This was fol- lowed with a. message of sympathy from the Moderator of the Presby- terian Church in Canada which was delliered by Rev. Dr. Baird. The hymn. "Nearer My God to Thee”

receded Benediction. pronounced

y Dr. Baird.

The service at the grave was c ducted by Rev. Mr. Stiriiniz as" ed by Rev. A. D. Stirling, Kcnsirig-

ston.

The late Mrs. Macdonaldls hus- band. Rev. Ewan wfarclonald. and her two sons. Dr. Stuart and Chest- er, were present. 'I‘iiey accompazwd her remains from Toronto where she passed away last Friday.

Among those present a‘. ‘he fun- eral wer His Honour.

"iefitii.iéa’.iii“ifié“iriiiérii: 13a fscrggii-zafeisigiiéi tlygmrolghis $5; building at men's ‘mm 501' STYEQL Oltgifl of the blaze was ‘lil- knowil. It broke out 51101115’ after 1

age, three for dlers' packages and one for sell- ing meat beyond rationing regula- tions.

Declares High Schools not 0f greatest use

TRURO, N. 5.. April 29 -<CE}) - Dr. George J. Truenran, president

of Mount Allison University, deliv- 28-—tDclayed1 -— cred the address to the graduates attack by a today at the closing exercises of the Icelandic strip _ since early last spring was dis- high closed today with the arrival of

Nova Scoiia agricultural college. Dr, Trueman declared

hymn, and factory town of Rostoek, and

day and night blows against points along the Nazi ‘lu-